VOCALISM • DICCIONARIO INGLES.COM • Definition of Vocalism

... Meantime, the music goes on. A long, long sonata or concerto—piano and violin, or piano, violin, and violoncello—is listened to in profound silence, with a low murmur of applause at the end of each movement. Then perhaps comes a little vocalism—sternly classic though—an aria from Gluck, or a solemn and pathetic song from Mendelssohn: the performer being either a well-known concert-singer, or a young lady—very nervous and a little uncertain—who, it is whispered, ...

— Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 436 - Volume 17, New Series, May 8, 1852 • Various